Stoneworks

The Terrace Project begins.

A thoroughly miserable-weather day but one (unexpectedly) full of trades again.  The landscapers were expected; the carpenter and electrician weren't but no matter.

Much lining out of the new garden plan, and discovering that the designer had used an artistic approach to dimensions rather than a mathematical one, but we've sorted out what actually works, and the turf started coming off.

A few huge and HEAVY stones forming part of the rockery in the corner of the house. Trees had moved them over decades to actually rest on the house wall, which wasn't a great plan.  We deliberated what to do with them for a while - deliberating mainly because any move of them was a non-trivial operation - they must be a fair part of a ton each.  In the end we've planted the three biggest as a Stone Triangle in another part of the garden.

The steps by the French doors needed re-laying, so most of them had to come out.  This exposed what was holding up that particular part of house - which was largely loose rubble and optimism.  A large wadge of concrete is now planned to replace the reliance on optimism.